Friday, June 10, 2005
Blog fatigue
I haven't blogged for ages. Again. I'm just feeling very apathetic towards it at the moment. Also I've been quite busy at work and haven't really had the time. Ho hum.
Anyway, the list of Things Of Note In Pgd's Life runs as follows:
Went to Reading last weekend for my friend Rachel's 20th birthday. She'd just finished her 2nd year exams, too, so obviously the only sensible thing to do was to have an almightly piss-up. Her friends organised a not-so-secret birthday picnic (with only a couple of days to go, they let it slip - to her face!) in Henley-on-Thames, which is a beautiful place and so well-to-do that its charity shops are rumoured to stock designer clothes on a regular basis (Edit: and furthermore, I have just been informed, is the constituency of bumblingly affable Tory MP Boris Johnson. Hurrah!). In the evening we went to Reading Uni's student union club, which is huge and very very cool except for the fact that queueing for the bar is a nightmare. One bar only sold shots (i.e. no mixers), and whilst the queues were smaller, it did have the disadvantage of, well, persuading you to buy shots! The next day we spent happily wandering around the campus's huge areas of lakes, woodland and grasses, and then ambling in the general direction of the town and the train station, stopping regularly for liquid refreshment and once for Japanese noodles. Mmmm!
Some pics of all this can be found here.
This week has so far seen barbecues, a trip to Rhinos, a meal at an Indian restuarant paid for by my boss, and karaoke night at the Union. Tonight it will also take in a long-postponed gig by Ben Folds. Which is nice :)
One last thing: as some of you may know, my Mum has for a while now been researching our family history. She has now put her work online in the form of a series of chapters documenting local history, each drawing on the experiences of a different generation of the family. It's not finished yet, but please feel free to have a look around and make (constructive) comments! The site is here.
Anyway, the list of Things Of Note In Pgd's Life runs as follows:
Went to Reading last weekend for my friend Rachel's 20th birthday. She'd just finished her 2nd year exams, too, so obviously the only sensible thing to do was to have an almightly piss-up. Her friends organised a not-so-secret birthday picnic (with only a couple of days to go, they let it slip - to her face!) in Henley-on-Thames, which is a beautiful place and so well-to-do that its charity shops are rumoured to stock designer clothes on a regular basis (Edit: and furthermore, I have just been informed, is the constituency of bumblingly affable Tory MP Boris Johnson. Hurrah!). In the evening we went to Reading Uni's student union club, which is huge and very very cool except for the fact that queueing for the bar is a nightmare. One bar only sold shots (i.e. no mixers), and whilst the queues were smaller, it did have the disadvantage of, well, persuading you to buy shots! The next day we spent happily wandering around the campus's huge areas of lakes, woodland and grasses, and then ambling in the general direction of the town and the train station, stopping regularly for liquid refreshment and once for Japanese noodles. Mmmm!
Some pics of all this can be found here.
This week has so far seen barbecues, a trip to Rhinos, a meal at an Indian restuarant paid for by my boss, and karaoke night at the Union. Tonight it will also take in a long-postponed gig by Ben Folds. Which is nice :)
One last thing: as some of you may know, my Mum has for a while now been researching our family history. She has now put her work online in the form of a series of chapters documenting local history, each drawing on the experiences of a different generation of the family. It's not finished yet, but please feel free to have a look around and make (constructive) comments! The site is here.
# posted by Pgd @ 1:24 pm 
